Open Camera

Mark Harman

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About this app

Open Camera has the following features:
* Option to auto-level so your pictures are perfectly level no matter what.
* Expose your camera's functionality: support for scene modes, color effects, white balance, ISO, exposure compensation/lock, selfie with "screen flash", HD video and more.
* Handy remote controls: timer (with optional voice countdown), auto-repeat mode (with configurable delay), Bluetooth LE remote control (for specifically supported smartphone housing).
* Option to take photo remotely by making a noise.
* Configurable volume keys and user interface.
* Upside-down preview option for use with attachable lenses.
* Overlay a choice of grids and crop guides.
* Optional GPS location tagging (geotagging) of photos and videos; for photos this includes compass direction (GPSImgDirection, GPSImgDirectionRef).
* Apply date and timestamp, location coordinates, and custom text to photos; store date/time and location as video subtitles (.SRT).
* Option to remove device exif metadata from photos.
* Panorama, including for front camera.
* Support for HDR (with auto-alignment and ghost removal) and Exposure Bracketing.
* Support for Camera2 API: manual controls (with optional focus assist); burst mode; RAW (DNG) files; camera vendor extensions; slow motion video; log profile video.
* Noise reduction (including low light night mode) and Dynamic range optimisation modes.
* Options for on-screen histogram, zebra stripes, focus peaking.
* Focus bracketing mode.
* No third party ads in the app (I only run third party ads on the website). Open Source.

(Some features may not be available on all devices, as they may depend on hardware or camera features, the Android version, etc.)

Website (and links to source code): http://opencamera.org.uk/

Note that it's not possible for me to test Open Camera on every Android device out there, so please test before using Open Camera to photo/video your wedding etc :)

App icon by Adam Lapinski. Open Camera also uses content under third party licences, see https://opencamera.org.uk/#licence

Ratings and reviews

I will never use this app again. It has repeatedly failed to save my long videos, that I put so much time, energy, and effort into recording them. Each time, it showed an error and left me with nothing — all my hard work was gone. (a 0 bytes file named .Pending) I had already enabled the setting to save the video when maximum file size is reached, but it still didn’t work. Is there really no way to fix this issue? I'm frustrated.

Great app. Only things I wish were improved would be some device-specific bug fixes for the Galaxy S20+, namely being able to access the third camera in camera2 mode... and maybe also being able to switch cameras on the fly while recording. 60fps support also appears to be to not be working, unfortunately. But this almost salvages the horrible video recording experience of the stock camera (which is utterly incapable of not dropping a frame; the average framerate of a 30fps video can come out to 29, which is insanely bad). Keep up the great work!

I loved this app when I first downloaded it, I enjoy taking before and after photos and it helps me line up the angle. But now, the last time I used it was in May, and now that it is July and I'm trying to use it again it won't let me open my gallery it is still stalled on the photo from May and I can only swipe one photo at a time. that means I have to swipe through hundreds of photos since May to get to the current one I'm trying to work with. Clearing the cache didn't help.

What’s new

More crop guides: 65:24 and 3:1. Shutter button now changes to a red square when recording video. Show current save location in settings. Don't block UI thread when first starting camera preview (for Camera2 API with Android 14+).

Removed -/+ controls for zoom and exposure compensation.

Various other improvements and bug fixes.